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  • What Is a Case?

    Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

    Edited by Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker ...
    The concept of the case is a basic feature of social science research and yet many questions about how a case should be defined, selected, and judged are far from settled. The contributors to this volume probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and the results of research. The contributions demonstrate that the work of any given ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Houston's River Oaks

    by Charles Dain Becker, Joan Blaffer Johnson ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    River Oaks is a name that has rung out in Houston, Texas, since its founding in 1923. The neighborhood's uncertain geographical boundaries may be a point of controversy, but the impact River Oaks has had on the city is indisputable. River Oaks has been home to astronauts who have contributed to American space exploration; lawyers who are involved in the interworking of the United States' legal ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pintoricchio

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Legacy of an Italian Artistic Master: Pinturicchio and His Influential Works in Renaissance Italy

    by Evelyn March Phillipps, Shane Becker ...
    In "Pintoricchio," Evelyn March Phillipps delves into the life and artistry of the Renaissance painter Bernardino di Betto Boccaccio, known as Pintoricchio. This meticulously researched work combines rich biographical details with a critical analysis of Pintoricchio's artistic contributions, particularly his frescoes that adorned notable Roman churches. Phillipps employs a lyrical prose style that ... Read more

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    Don’t Tell the President

    The Best, Worst, and Mostly Untold Stories from Presidential Advance

    by Jean Becker, Tom Collamore ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant, Nan McNamara, Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    Dukakis is in the tank! The Queen looks like a talking purple hat! We didn’t leave Chelsea Clinton in Moscow, right?The most harrowing and hilarious stories behind presidential events over the past sixty years—from the Rose Garden to Air Force One, foreign trips to the campaign trail—detailing the art of preparation that goes into these delicate, high stress operations and revealing how they have ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family’s huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Lives of the Artists

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Translated by Julia Conway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Stones of Florence

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of the birthplace of the Renaissance and the legendary home of the Medici, Dante, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and other giants of the age. Her keen observations of this famously alluring city speak to Florence's persistent character and magnetism-and the attraction it exerted over the first ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary McCarthy's Italy

    The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Captivating portraits of two of the world's most beguiling cities from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group.Mary McCarthy blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create unique living portraits of two of Italy's most enchanting cities in these enthralling books now available in one volume.The Stones of Florence: The book Library Journal called "Mary McCarthy's classic" ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Works of Michelangelo (Delphi Classics)

    by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 10 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, producing masterpieces that rank among the most famous in existence. Delphi’s groundbreaking ‘Masters of Art Series’ presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Complete Works of Raphael (Delphi Classics)

    by Raphael Sanzio, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 13 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Celebrated for his clarity of form, ease of composition and the sublime beauty of his ‘Madonnas’, Raphael is the epitome of the High Renaissance genius. In spite of his untimely death, he left behind a large body of work that would have a monumental influence on the course of art in the ensuing centuries. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Venice Observed

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group takes readers on a captivating journey to one of the world's most celebrated cities.Mary McCarthy brings her novelist's unerring eye to a book that blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create a living portrait of "the world's loveliest city."Like a painter capturing the city's essence on canvas, McCarthy uses words to create ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of the Artists

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Translated by George Bull ...
    Series Book 1 - Lives of the Artists
    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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